Another big flaw in character leveling design is that the specific talent levels gained can't be fine tuned. Its only 1 to 5. So, sure, each point do count, but you can't spare anything without having a big impact on character progression.
Big design flaw, that I illustrate with the following example:
I did not discover this, it is just about a player saying he found weird to gain level 1 in air magic after a conversation choice. So, before, he knew nothing about air magic, and after making a conversation choice, he gained one level in air magic. Now lets say that the player is already level 4 in air magic. So making the right conversation choice will make him level 5 in air magic (from Master to Legendary ?), which sounds a bit to much for just chosing the right answer.
I really think the Trait system is very very good and innovative (reminds me of the "Pendragon" PnP RPG, which I am a GM in), but there are again so far some design/balance flaws to it.
Swen agrees that the way Traits are currently working is not very good and will be changed.
(Trait) Bonuses for Conversation are AmbiguousWe'll be going through the traits system shortly and you can expect changes. The assignment [of] boni so far was rather arbitrary and served more as a test of the dev pipeline. Your points are very valid btw & reflect the original vision more than the system as is.
"Put points in skills when you level up. It doesn't matter that you ever tryied crafting anything, you can still become a master in crafting, all you have to do is put leveling points in this talent."
Yeah yeah, the ability system doesn't work like Skyrim's and you're disappointed. We know already. Skyrim's skill mechanics are based on a huge world which respawns and so doesn't let you get stuck running out of ways to gain more points in a skill. Original Sin's world does not respawn, its core mechanics are different to Skyrim's, and they are almost certainly not going to change at this late stage, so can you stop whining about the same thing over and over again?
